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Radiation treatment for cancer after radical prostatectomy linked with increased survival

Published in Cancer Weekly, July 1st, 2008

Preliminary findings indicate that for men who underwent radical prostatectomy, radiation treatment after prostate cancer recurrence was associated with an increase in prostate cancer-related survival, according to a study in the June 18 issue of JAMA.

"Nearly 60,000 men (27 percent of newly diagnosed cases) will have undergone radical prostatectomy in 2007. Although surgery provides excellent cancer control, approximately 15 percent to 40 percent of these men will experience cancer recurrence within 5 years, usually manifested only by elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level," the authors write. For such men it is unknown whether salvage radiotherapy (radiation...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-07-01)

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